J. Crew, once a venerated purveyor of all things American prep, filed for bankruptcy this week. The coronavirus shut-in certainly put a big strain on its retail viability. However, the company’s problems started long before Covid-19. According to PrivCo, a private company financial data startup, J. …

The pace of private companies seeking to go public has slowed nearly to a halt. In April, private companies filed only two S-1s. …

Western Texas Intermediate crude oil has been hovering over the mid-teen level after settling at negative 37 dollars per barrel the day before the May expiry. …

On April 22nd, Facebook and Jio’s parent company Reliance (RIL) entered into a binding agreement for Facebook to buy a 9.9% stake in Jio. The deal is the highest foreign direct investment in the Indian technology sector. Check out part 1 of Apple here. The deal has evoked some unpleasant…

It is day 49 since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic. There are signs of social distancing fatigue. Some data points to early signs of an easing in social distancing, based on state policies, or perhaps just the psychological impact of being inside for as long as people have been. …

PrivCo has analyzed the startup funding trends in previous posts, read here, here, and here. We will take a look at the M&A activities from 2019 to paint a more complete picture of the financial and strategic states of private companies. Usually private company strategic transaction data come out at…

PrivCo is reviewing and release early data for Q2 in the startup funding world. In the previous two installments, we have reviewed some early trends in Q2 and the overall market sentiment. Here, we will take a deeper look at the rise of venture debt that the market has seen…

We are wrapping up the first month of the second quarter now. Usually, in the startup and private market world, data comes out quarterly. However, in the unusual and uncertain Covid-19 time, PrivCo combed through all its startup funding data from 2019 to the first three weeks of April 2020…

Last week, according to PrivCo, 88 M&A deals were announced and 122 funding raised by startups in the US. The startup funding market has seen a bounce back in terms of conditions and sentiments since the beginning of the Covid-19 shelter-in-place. Most of the US has had 4 weeks of…